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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).

Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).

For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).

Noun

pool (plural pools)

  1. A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
    the pools of Solomon
    the Pool of London
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:
      […] at laſt I left them
      I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell,
      There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake
      Ore-ſtunck their feet.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Marriage And Single Life. VIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 37:
      A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole.
    • 1833, Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller's Daughter”, in Poems, 5th edition, Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 86:
      I loved the brimming wave that swam
      Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill,
      The sleepy pool above the dam,
      The pool beneath it never still,
      The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor,
      The dark round of the dripping wheel,
      The very air about the door
      Made misty with the floating meal.
  2. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  3. Ellipsis of swimming pool.
  4. (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
  5. (by extension) Any group of like things.
  6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
    a pool of blood
  7. A localized glow of light.
    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
      He walked slowly, passing through one pool of light after another, his shadow running tall across the fronts of the barber shop, the Western Auto, the video-rental shop.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: Pool
  • → Japanese: プール (pūru)
  • → Swedish: pool c
Translations
body of water
small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
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Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.

Etymology 2

1. From French poule (“collective stakes in a game”). The French word "poule" in this context is an abbreviation of "poulain, pouliche" (foal, filly), and referred to races with female horses under 3 years old. It then became used by punters to designate bets on that race, and started to be used from the racetrack to the stadiums.

2. The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner.

Noun

pool (plural pools)

  1. A supply of resources.
    • 1962 June, Rupert Shervington, “The planning and execution of the Kent Coast electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
      The 4-BEP and 4-CEP stock is maintained in a common pool for both Chatham and South Eastern fast main-line services.
    1. A number of people when considered as a resource.
      dating pool
      There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager.
      • 2020 October 15, Alana Semuels, “Workers Who Were Laid Off Say They're Being Passed Over—For Their Own Jobs”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2020:
        This is not necessarily surprising; employers often use recessions to pay new workers less because they have such a large pool of potential applicants to choose from, says Ruth Milkman, the Labor Studies Chair at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.
  2. (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
  4. (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
  5. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
  6. (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
    Synonym: poule
  7. (rugby union) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
    Synonym: group
  8. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  9. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
  11. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
    The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
    He put $10,000 into the pool.
  12. A set of players in quadrille etc.
  13. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
  14. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
    We must pool our resources.
    • 1920, Frank L. Packard, chapter 4, in The White Moll:
      “She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The idea struck me last night that if she and I should—er—pool our resources, we should not have to complain of the reward.”
      “Oh, so youse wants to work wid her, eh?” sniffed Rhoda Gray. “So dat’s it, is it?”
    • 2007 November, Elizabeth Drake, “Combine and conquer: Use these winning food pairings to protect your health”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 124:
      It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. […] From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.
    • 27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act
      Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
  2. (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
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Dutch

Etymology 1

From Latin polus, which itself is from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis”). Cognate with English pole.

Pronunciation

Noun

pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)

  1. magnetic pole (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
  2. electrical pole (e.g. of a battery)
  3. (figuratively) an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: pul

Etymology 2

From English pool.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool m (plural pools, diminutive pooltje n)

  1. a gambling venture such as a football pool
  2. the stake involved in such a venture
  3. an arrangement where people pool in money to share one resource such as a carpool
  4. (sports) pool
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch pool, from Old French poil, from Latin pilus (“hair”). Cognate with English pile.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)

  1. the pile (upstanding usually fine hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting

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Estonian

Estonian numbers (edit)
20
2 3  → 
    Cardinal: kaks
    Ordinal: teine
    Multiplier: kahekordne
    Distributive: kahekaupa, paarikaupa
    Collective adverbial: kahekesi
    Fractional: pool

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates include Finnish puoli (“half, side”), Northern Mansi па̄л (pāl, “half, side”), Hungarian fél (“half”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoːl/, [ˈpoːl]
  • Hyphenation: pool
  • Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

pool (genitive poole, partitive poolt)

  1. half
  2. side
    tagumine pool ― back side
    koledam pool ― the ugly side
Declension
More information Declension of (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation), singular ...

The nonstandard plural partitive poolesid is somewhat common in colloquial use.

More information ↗︎○, allative ...

Postposition

pool

  1. at, to, towards
    minu pool ― at my place
    põhja pool ― to the north, in the north
    igal pool ― everywhere

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German spōle, from Old Saxon spōla, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoːlʲ/, [ˈpoːlʲ]
  • Hyphenation: pool
  • Rhymes: -oːlʲ

Noun

pool (genitive pooli, partitive pooli)

  1. bobbin, coil
Inflection
Declension of pool (type paks)
More information singular, plural ...
See also

References

  • “pool”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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French

Pronunciation

Noun

pool m (plural pools)

  1. pool (sport)

Further reading

Ingrian

Pronunciation

Noun

pool

  1. alternative form of pooli

Declension

More information Declension of (type 5/keeli, no gradation), singular ...

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 451
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Karao

Noun

pool

  1. large fire (which causes damage)

Sambali

Noun

pool

  1. fire

Spanish

Noun

pool m (plural pooles)

  1. pool (sport)

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1968; from English pool, related to Swedish pöl (“small water pool, usually on the road when it's raining”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pool c

  1. a swimming pool

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Anagrams

Votic

Pronunciation

Noun

pool

  1. alternative form of pooli

Numeral

pool

  1. half

Inflection

More information Declension of (type X/tuli, no gradation), singular ...

References

  • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “pooli”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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Yucatec Maya

Noun

pool

  1. head

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